Zenyatta Aint Nothin' to Eff With

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com

Wa wa we wa. This was Saturday's Clement Hirsch Handicap at Del Mar in San Diego. The horse that wins is the undefeated filly Zenyatta. You don't have to know a thing about horse racing to know that she just toyed with the field here. Watch this race and follow just Zenyatta (She's #8 and her joeckey is in teal), I promise she wins, so there's no point in looking anywhere else. The video is kinda grainy so it may help to put your cursor/arrow thingy over her and follow her across the track. She's in last place until the :56 second mark. That's when she started picking off horses one by one along the backstretch. After that she runs into some traffic around the turn, and once her jockey can finally find her some running room she exerts just enough energy to win. With all of her zig-zagging she clearly took the longest route to the finish line, but clearly had more energy left than any other horse.

My point is, if you were a chick horse, Zenyatta would be much faster than you. Enjoy the race.